Smoking-pipe.



J. GLOSSINGER.

SMOKING PIPE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 18, 1912.

1,038,564, Patented Sept} 17, 1912.

cfam @Zwnnjer COLUMBIA PLANOGEAPH CO.. WASHINGTON. D. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIoE. 7

JOHN GLOSSINGER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO MANHATTAN BRTAR PIPE COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

sMoKINe-PIrE.

Specification of tetters Patent.

Patented Sept, 1'7, 1912.

Application filed July 18, 1912. Serial No. 710,203.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN GLossrNenn, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Smoking-Pipes, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in smoking pipes and has to do more particularly with that type known as the calabash, such as usually provided with a removable meerschaum or composition tobacco-bowl. This style of pipe has now come to be quite extensively used, but from a practical and economical point of view they are open to certain objections that I seek to obviate by my improved construction, and the objects of the present invention are: First,-to standardize the meerschaum or composition tobacco-bowl as to size and construction so that the smoker may purchase on the open market a meerschaum or composition bowl that will accurately fit his Calabash pipe shell no matter what the size of the shell may be, and without being compelled to go to the expense of having a new .bowl specially made, in case the bowl thatoriginally came with his pipe has become broken, lost, or burned out, and second,-to provide a special construct-ion of carrier-ring or collar for the meerschaum or composition tobaccobowl designed to serve as a protector therefor, and for the rim of the calabash shell, and to prevent breakage of the bowl which is more than likelyto occur and usually does occur, with the old constructions of calabash pipes, having meerschaum bowls with marginal projecting rims, whenever the smoker attempts to remove the tobacco heel from the pipe in the accustomed way, as by tapping the same upon or against some hard object.

The calabash being a gourd and a natural product varies in size and in the thickness of its walls, no two shells being exactly alike in these respects, and the meerschaum or composition bowls being a manufactured product, must be specially molded or turned to suit the particular calabash shells, with which they are to be associatedyhence if the meerschaum or composition bowl should become broken or otherwise destroyed it would become necessaryto-have a new one specially molded or turned and this would involve an extraordinary expense which is obviated by the present invention. 1

According to my invention I propose to make the meerschaum or composition tobacco-bowls in standard sizes to be sold separately as an article of manufacture, and I propose to furnish the calabash shell in the first instance with a ring or collar made preferably of brier or some other suitable material especially constructed to receive the said standard sized meerschaum or composition'tobacco-bowls, so that in case a person who has purchased a calabash pipe constructed according to this invention, should break, loose or burn out the meerschaum bowl thereof he can purchase a new bowl on the open market and thus save the expense and inconvenience of having a new bowl specially made, as it has been necessary to do in the past.

With these ends in view the invention comprises the features of construction and combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described in detail and then more definitely pointed out in the claims.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein- Figure 1 is a plan view of a pipe constructed in accordance with the present invention. Fig.2 is a vertical sectional view.

Referring to the drawings, reference numeral 1 designates a gourd shell commonly lniown as a calabash, to the smaller end of which is attached a mouth-piece 2, the latter being connected to the shell by means of a sleeve 3 preferably made of brier, the said mouth-piece having a reduced end which provides a so-oalled push-fit with the said sleeve. The sleeve 3 1s shown as provided with an integrally formed partition 4 having a central aperture.

The gourd shell 1, at its open end, is provided with. a cork or similar packing ringface 8 of the ring or collar fitting closely upon the upper face of the packingring,

r and against the marginaledge of the gourd shell. The ring or collar 6, which is preferably made of brier or other suitable material preferably projects slightly beyond the outer face of the shell 1 in order to protect the edge thereof.

The carrier ring or collar 6 is provided i which, as before stated, is preferably made with a counterbored opening 9 into which 1 is removably fitted a meerschaum or comor collar.

position tobacco-bowl 10, the latter being provided at its upper end with an annular flange 12* that is shaped to closely fit the counterbored opening 9 of the carrier ring The counterbored openingin the carrier ring or collar is made of standard size, and the meerschaum or composition tobacco bowls 10 are also made of standard size especially designed and constructed to ring or collar 6, the object of this special construction being that in case the tobacco bowl should become broken, burned out, or

otherwise destroyed, the owner of the pipe may purchase upon the open market a new bowl to take the place of the discarded one, and without being compelled to go to the expense of having a new bowl specially made, this being rendered possible by reason of the fact that owing to the present invention the tobacco bowls will be placed on sale in open market in standard sizes especially adapted to fit the carrier rings or collars made according to the present invention.

As now usually constructed calabash pipes are provided with meerschaum bowls that are removably fitted in the calabash shell, and these meerschaum bowls are usually provided with an annularly projecting flange, the meerschaum bowls being especially constructed, particularly as to size,

calabash smoking-pipe comprising a gourd to fit the particular calabash shells with which they are to be associated, this being bowl would have to be especially turned for the particular calabash pipe, the smoker is, therefore, subjected to; quite considerable necessary owing to the fact that calabashes being a natural product vary as to size, and

broken, which renders the pipe useless un-' less new bowl is provided, and as this expense in ordering a new bowl. This ex- I pense, and the inconvenience of waiting 1? until a new "bowl 1s provided 1s entirely obviated by the present invention wherein Ipropos'eto make the counterbore'd openthe open market anew meerschaum or com-' position tobacco, bowl that will accurately fit his calabash pipe, said bowl being purchasable at a relatively small cost.

By providing the carrier ring or collar of brier root, not only is the pipe given a novel and distinctive appearance, but there is no danger of the meerschaum or composition bowl becoming broken if the edge of the pipe is tapped against or upon a rigid object in the act of jarring'the tobacco heel from the pipe, as the blows or concussions to which the pipe is subjected in thiS operation are imparted directly to the fbrier carrier ring or collar and the nicerischaum bowl is thus fully'protected.

closely fit the counterbored opening in'the 1 connected to the calabash shell by means 50f a slip-fit, and the same is true with reference to the meerschaum or composition tobacco bowl.

The carrier ring or collar is removably facilitate cleaning the pipe.

Calabash pipes constructed'in accordance with the present invention overcome several objectionable features present in the old form calabash pipe, and provide a more durable and a more sightly pipe structure.

What I claim is 1. As a new article of manufacture, a

@calabash smoking-pipe comprising a' gourd shell having a mouthpiece, a. carrier-ring or collar removably fitted in the openend ofthe shell and having an opening of standard size, a tobacco bowl of earthy ma- :terial and of standard size removably fitted in said ring or collar and a packing ring in terposed between the shell and collar.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a

shell having a mouth-piece, a flanged carrier ring or collar removably fitted inv the open end of the shell and having its flange pro jecting over the upper edge or rim of the shell, said ring or collar having a counterbored opening of standard size, a tobaccobowl of earthy material and of standard size having an annularly projecting rim re- :movably fitted in said counterbored open- ?ing of the carrier ring or collar and a packing rin interposed between the shell and thecollar.

31 As a new article of manufacture, a calabash smoking-pipe comprising a gourd shell having a mouth-piece, a flanged car rier-ring or collar of brier removably fitted in the open end of the shell and having its flange projecting over the upper edge thereof, said ring or collar having a coun- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set terbored opening of standard sue, a meermy hand in presence of two subscribing Wit-- schauln tobacco-bowl of standard size havnesses.

ing an annularly projecting rim at'its u'pper JOHN GLOSSINGER. 5 end shaped to fit said counterbored opening Witnesses:

of the carrienring or collar and a packing J. GRANVILLE MEYERS,

ring interposed between the shell and collar. L. A. HAMMERSLEY.

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